2 hours ago, Everstorm said:

 

Sounds interesting.  How is it so far?

 

Good and very bad; it's a Jungian therapy book, so the very bad parts are it has a metric fuck-ton of journaling prompts. Good for me but I loath this kind of work, too much history of high-control environments which were partially administered through violations of privacy around journaling and diaries. Probs very healthy to work through my blocks as an adult where I can guard my own privacy and then burn the workbook afterwards if I want. The excellent parts are that it's self-mediated therapeutic work with build it meditative assignments, which always makes my actual therapy sessions more productive.

Following no matter what, but I want mando tunes and pic of your jewelry horde as you sort through!

Wake up babe, new challenge just dropped

1 hour ago, Harriet said:

 

Who wouldn't? I'm currently typing one handed while holding my laptop on the other arm so Orange can take up my entire lap. For my trouble, the reward is steady purring.

 

 

Yeah! I got the ps5 recently, haven't had a console since I was a teenager playing blood omen 2 and okami on the ps2. So there are a lot of old games to go through! But also some new ones. First game I played was god of war 2018. AMAZING on all metrics: graphics, gameplay, story. Then horizon zero dawn--really great story and graphics, gameplay good. Already played assassin's creed 2 trilogy (gameplay imperfect but I still loved it, graphics dated, story quite silly but amusing), as well as 3 (didn't finish 4 yet, don't love the pirate life). Played through Hogwarts legacy--super cute, really beautiful graphics & such a charming world for anyone who loved HP. It's my happy place now. Gameplay pretty simple but fun, story pretty fun. Currently going through the mass effect trilogy, on number 2. Story really great, graphics good enough, gameplay a bit simple. Also my brother brought over sack boy for us to play. Pretty cute graphics, hard gameplay for those like me who are unco and cannot do timing or platforms. Story very much for children. That's everything so far! 

 

Also on mass effect but finishing 1 for the first time. What's sack boy?

30 minutes ago, Harriet said:

Hmmm I guess I should make a new challenge. But I'm cosy here. What's my theme? I just want to keep lifting, walking, meditating, and doing my sensible diet

I want the juxtaposition of a rock-n-roll over the top theme, to contain your sensible daily goals.

 

Quote

“Into every generation a Slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a Chosen One. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.”

 

Follow along as I search for the true slayer among the crowd of promising potentials - the true slayer is a comedian who can excel at the the four marks of destiny - laughs per minute (LPM), story telling, presence, and X factor. I also shouldn't have to say this, but because of woke I'll be very clear, a comedian is a woman. I have no time for so called "male-comedians", those men who make a career of voice acting r/incel posts. I understand there are queer men, disabled men, BIPOC men, Jewish men, and men with hilariously exploitable trauma who can do a passable job as actual male-comedians; but the true slayer slays, without a hyphen.* 

 

To find the true slayer, I need to train like a slayer, and I'm focusing on the following areas for this challenge:

• Lore 
  • Head on pillow in bed reading fiction by 11pm - 5x/week
  • Continued Duolingo streak by noon -  7x/week
• Meditation
  • Ass on meditation pillow for 5 minutes or more - 7x/week
  • Bodhrán meditation 3x/week
• Strength
  • 3x8 65% work - 4x/week
  • 15 mins HIIT - 4x/week
• Punching 
  • Empty the attic
  • Attend one Stammtisch 
  • Attend one open mic
  • Learn "the Ballad of Jed Clampett"
  • Complete the book and workbook "Change Your Story Change Your Life" (CYSCYL) by Carl Greer
  • Design and produce statuettes
    • St Sebastian / Apollo
    • The Norns
    • The Black Madonna of Czestochowa / Erzulie Dantor
    • St Rita of Cascia / Marsha P Johnson
  • Produce pre-designed statuettes
    • Eve-Asherah
    • Gullveig-Freyja
  • Redesign and produce statuettes
    • Brigid
    • Persephone
    • Fro-ingvi
  • Produce prayer beads
    • Green agate and oak choker
    • Unakite and rose quartz counting bracelet malas
    • Obsidian and agate counting bracelet malas
    • Jasper and copper counting bracelet malas
    • Jasper "dude" bracelet
    • Coffee-tone steel "dude" bracelet 
  • Get two tattoos

 

*Expect lots of standup clips, and a decent amount of AI generated images of vampire slayers as comedians

 

10 hours ago, Harriet said:

 

Orange (I will call her orange for disambiguation) luckily does not help with nails, except by generally causing light hairs to float through the air in a cloud in her vicinity. These are capable of sticking to lacquer. She does help with writing, gaming, meditation, sleeping, and reading by climbing atop me and purring. 

I will die for Harriet the Cat, also know as Orange. Cool to ask why you’re playing lately for games?

3 hours ago, Harriet said:

paint nails (turquoise)

 

Does harriet the cat help harriet the human paint their nails?

1 hour ago, Scaly Freak said:

Crisis averted!

 

Ooops, big. 

 

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Looks delicious!!

3 hours ago, Harriet said:

Those Jherks. 

 

You're a jhust and jhudicius jhudge.

 

3 hours ago, Harriet said:

Erm, generalizable? Hmm, it doesn't say much that's concrete except that steady state cardio is just not very efficient because you have too much stored body fat. I mean, that's true, but I would have thought the problem was even worse for HIIT, because while it burns more energy per minute, you do it for so many fewer minutes. Anyway, when the science is indeed unsettled, personal experience is queen. My approach is just to do as much exercise as I can see myself doing long term. It might increase my daily requirements by a tiny bit, but that's not the main appeal. 

 

Being our own personal trainers is a crap job, nu?

 

Spoilered for diet / weight loss talk. 

3 hours ago, Harriet said:

 

That sounds neat. So, since you've already done your lifting and are a little tired, I guess it would be harder to do so much HIIT that your recovery is impaired? (Not for me. But for others.)

 

Shrug, yep, and me being stubborn. Figuring the best adjunct to get a better low-back squat, is more low-back squats.

 

3 hours ago, Rookie said:

I understood it was a raccoon but I could see how people might think fox. I have a potential solution to make it look more raccoon ish.  I will update with the picture from my phone

 

Love it!!! I'll show that to the tattoo artist, thanks Rookie!

5 minutes ago, Harriet said:

(Is Jon you?)

 

Yes, never with an H. John's are the mortal enemy of Jon's everywhere. Let us not even mention Johann's.

 

5 minutes ago, Harriet said:

Looks good. Why avoid cardio for weight?

 

This annoying article summarizes the case against steady state cardio for weight loss. I'm not concerned if you find it unconvincing; exercise science suffers from a lack of controlled, extrapolatable (whats the STEM word for this idea?), and long-term studies. I'm persuaded mostly from personal experience, and then the resulting confirmation bias that lends credence in my eyes to studies and anecdotal evidence in support of my pre-formed conclusion. 🤷‍♂️

 

5 minutes ago, Harriet said:

I haven't experienced it to make much of a difference (I cannot do enough cardio that it would matter) but I hadn't heard that it was actively bad? I've tried loads of things for weight loss, and calorie restriction absolutely does it, the only problem is not being ravenous and insane and going on a fuck-everything catastrophic months long derail that rapidly puts it all back on. Hmmm. 

 

If I find a magic wand for weight-loss, I will not only share it, but you can have a million or so of the dollars that will be permanently raining on my head. Jokes aside, I feel you.

 

5 minutes ago, Harriet said:

 

Oh, you have type 2? Hopefully ozempic will become less expensive. I still don't know much about it, but I have been hearing recently that it's pretty safe and extremely effective, so I'm sure loads of people could benefit from it.

 

Nope, just a high BMI and my weight loss doc has me on tirzepatide, branded as Mounjaro for diabetic patients and Zepbound for weight loss patients. 

 

5 minutes ago, Harriet said:

I haven't done Oly. So you can do it fast and/or heavy enough to make HIIT intervals without injury risk? I hadn't even thought about using weights for HIIT. (Not allowed or able to do it now anyway, but if I were, I would have chosen something low impact and low risk like a rowing or bike machine, and would have guessed I should keep leg-focused HIIT away from my lower body lifting days. But I don't really know.)

 

My usual strategy with HIIT is to use it at the end of the workout and in a similar movement to the heavy/medium work that I just completed. Pre-exhaustion is such a bullshit term, but if I need to make sure my HIIT stays humble, no better way than to follow 90% and 65% work with 25-40% work of the same or similar movement as HIIT. 

1 hour ago, Harriet said:

I don't quite understand the art with all the saints and deities, but I totally support it. 

 

If you get bored, read about palimpsests and imagine the same idea for mythic figures, where we scrape off one set of meanings and paint on a new set. I'm obsessed with working backwards and forwards through histories to capture the transition points of the old and new meanings. 

 

Imagine a classic Jesus image, but the crown of thorns is twined around the savior's black silk tophat and his rictus skeletal grin is parted for a cigar. Baron Saturday, a Hattian death god named after the day on which Jesus died, is himself a palimpsest of enslaved Hattians' older oral traditions; Samedi is painted on top of the enslavers' Jesus and serves as a symbol of quiet resistance, and more recently, as the patron of a president-for-life's official secret society and hit squad.  

 

Jesus was himself a palimpsest painted over with the revolutionary dreams of first century Palestinian Jews under roman occupation. The historical figure was likely an illegitimate exorcist and political agitator who suffered a near anonymous execution as a political dissident. His niche career in Palestine was then painted over as a universal equalizer for the underclass of imperial Rome after diaspora Jewish converts to the new faith brought the ideology to the far corners of the empire. As power and political fashions changed and the very emperor of Rome converted to the now populist faith in the 3rd century, and we then see the legitimized church of Jesus re-paint the Jesus canvas into a guardian of order and imperial citizenry, even while the preceding gods of imperial Rome were themselves literally repainted to become saints and angels.

 

That shit is deeeply fascinating to me.

39 minutes ago, Harriet said:

I don't quite understand the art with all the saints and deities, but I totally support it. 

 

You the best. 

 

39 minutes ago, Harriet said:

Tell me about your lifting? What do you do? Long and short term goals? Lifting styles? Workouts? 

 

Always juggling keeping my powerlifitng (PL) score growing and moving towards a healthier BMI.

 

Jon's perspective on BMI improvement calls for: no steady state cardio, heavy lifting, HIIT, dietary work (zero sweat on different opinions on BMI/health. Everyone here is doing their best)

Jon's perspective on PL score improvement calls for: heavy lifting, medium rep lifting, yoga, mobility work

 

The two goals don't diverge terribly, except that I'd be doing more pronounced bulk/cut cycles if I was only chasing PL scores. Luckily (??) my midwestern metabolism automatically bulks the second I relax from anxiously fixating on diet, so I've effectively been running slow bulk/cut cycles in synch with my depressive episodes. I'd been considering bariatric to reverse the natural trend of my genetics (N=double digit numbers for full sibblings, so I have a pretty good picture of my epigenetic range of possibilities), but I've lately been working with GLPN-1's instead. Which is why I was guiltily bugging you about brometheus and type 2; I def have feels about the shortages in diabetic medication.

 

Question at hand is really just me pondering the medium rep and HIIT part of the workouts, and the correct answer is medium reps on the three lifts for PL, and HIIT with movements that support those lifts and contribute to aging gracefully in the next four decades. So, we then have the question refined down to - does HIIT with oly support both PL and longterm flexibility / join health? Answer: probs yes. 

The second question is one only my obsessive brain wants to ask - should oly be the only form of HIIT, neglecting more targeted movements like pull up, dip, front squat, incline press, OHP, and step ups? Answer: very no, all-or-nothing answers are not appropriate for health decisions.

 

1 hour ago, athousandwords said:

My google-fu is failing: what is oly?

 

My bad, oly means olympic lifts; two lifts that are full body, have sexual-sounding names, and are currently the only form of weightlifting represented at the Olympics. I've always been both interested and cautious about approaching either lift, but since the new gym has a robust oly setup, I might add some building block movements for oly into my programing short term, and lightweight oly work as HIIT long-term. 

 

The Clean and Jerk

 

The Snatch

 

 

Next challenge potential items:

 

Books - Maybe a Greer personal narrative workbook I've been avoiding for years, maybe a coked-out philosophy text that I read in college and need to revisit, maybe some German poetry that I've been neglecting. Def vulnerable to overcommitting here, so likely pick one of the three, and try to synergize with something below.

 

Sleep - SMART behaviors to produce a regular 8 hour night of sleep, head on pillow reading fiction by a certain time with a given number of exceptions in a week. And no, one does not read non-fiction before bed. *glares frostily*

 

Meditation - been pretty unstructured lately, maybe daily "ass-on-meditation-pillow for x minutes" goal to strengthen the habit of sitting. Weakness is that meditation is punishingly boring to report or read about.

 

Language - been on a steady streak with duo but I want to be better about making consistent time for multiple languages. Might assign a goal of continue the streak before noon, trusting that I'd do language A before noon and language B after. Also might assign a goal of going to a Stammtisch 1x or 2x during a challenge; terrifying but v good for me.

 

Music - doing a 5x/week banjo practice goal would be fine, but might not be applicable if I'm already hitting 5x a week and I'm assigning this to just give me an excuse to info dump about banjo every week. Something that I'm allowed to do on my own damn challenge anyway. Separately, I've been neglecting the bodhran lately, and there might be an easy synergy to assign bodhran practice as a form of meditation. Percussion is neither boring nor insufferable to report about, and with harner-style drum meditation, it might be a nice little 1-2 punch. 1-2-3 if I pick the Greer book challenge. Which is fucking annoying because I've been avoiding Greer successfully for a long time. Fuck.

 

Gym - possible good time to add accessories to keep volume up, or add in light oly as a HIIT finisher. I'm generally not someone that craves variety in my workouts, but oly hits my holy grail of high muscle group recruitment, I just think amateur oly lifters who go heavy are fucking suicidal. Maybe the correct idea is to keep up the 5-3-1 style heavy work for half the workout, then keep up the boring sets of 8 and yoga to close out the 90 minute session. More chewing required.

 

Moving Prep - I liked the punchlist approach of last time. I think I'll just have a punchlist section and list carefully defined tasks to get done during the challenge, and make this an exercise in checkboxes. Boring but should be effective, and I shouldn't expect sex appeal from a to-do list.

 

Art - see above. The design process is fun to talk about and the results make for fun reporting, but ultimately it's a series of tasks on either the design phase or the production phase.

33 minutes ago, Sea-to-sky said:

All very interesting. Sadly not aufait enough with christian saints (especially the non celtic ones) to co tribute, but it all sounds like very interesting ideas. 
 

 

As a protestant low church boy, same. I'd normally be horrified to to touch a history as complex as Christian hagiographies and then edit them as needed for an art project, but sic semper colonizers. Not my fault the empire smothered us in their shitty stories. I have exactly as much reservation cutting up a hagiography as I would a picture of Buggs Bunny.

7 hours ago, Harriet said:

And one more photo to show off her luna moth eyes and her milk splash mouth

 

Why is orange so so beautiful???? 

KK, let the brainstorming commence:

 

Art

For a pride celebration at work in May, I'll be displaying a few pieces that need to be queer and workplace appropriate. Given my hyper focus lately, def will be displaying pieces in the intersection of animism, beatification, and queerness. Maybe a quick draft list for an exhibit would be:

• St Bridgit / Brigid
• St Sebastian / Apollo 
  • These two have a lineage that's squarely in my wheelhouse - saints that stand for European gods that stand for folk heroes that stand for animal spirits. The only question will be if depicting a queer figure's partner is necessary for the more well known of the pair to legible. At least St Bridgit's partner Darlughdach has a following among lesbians and she'd be appreciated in her own right. I'm just not interested in depicting a figure who's only there for dramatic effect.
• St Aelred of Rievaulx and St Waltheof of Melrose 
  • Same question here as with Rita. Made more pointed because fucking no one cares about St Walteof. I don't especially care about Aelred either, as there's no mythic ties to the figure, but this queer man's endless rhapsodizing over the glories of male friendship while he tried to remain celibate, oof. Big Mood.
• St Rita of Cascia / Marsha P Johnson
  • Rita is both a labor icon and a queer icon, as patrons for the desperate in both cases, but I think to depict her I'd want to double Rita with another figure like Marsha P Johnson.
• St Paul, King David, and Jonathan son of Saul
  • No. Also Fuck no. I'm sick to death of these figures being trotted out every June for an uncomfortable arranged marriage between American Christianity and white republican queerness. I don't want to touch these three unless I have something original say. 
• St Christopher / Babba Llegba
• Mary Magdalene / Maman Brigitte
• St Teresa of Ávila / Erzulie Freda
• Black Madonna of Czestochowa / Erzulie Dantor
  • I have a friend working with me on these four. When we're talking about trans-Atlantic African diaspora spirituality, I'm much more comfortable opening the door from colonizer spirituality, to look out at the wild world of faith and resistance to oppression that hid behind the faces of European saints and gods. I'll keep chewing on the idea, but this all sounds much better than making a plastic Shango and selling blackface art for $4.99 on Etsy.

1 hour ago, athousandwords said:

I love your challenge write-up - particularly the reflection on rewards. 

 

You know what it's like, you do a few dozen of these and the shine can wear off.

 

1 hour ago, athousandwords said:

This right here is why I don't set rewards for myself - I have no impulse control and will absolutely treat my self no matter the outcome. 🙈

 

Guuurl. Legit. I'll figure something but yeah.

 

Thanks for all the encouragement! I'll still be shit posting and brainstorming this week before the next challenge opens.

23 hours ago, Harriet said:

Started with bujo and had a nice relaxing day. Long walk, short walk, some house work and maintenance things. Washed hair, painted nails, knitted. 

Sounds like the perfect day.

 

1 hour ago, Harriet said:

I look forward to gym and enjoy it and feel satisfied afterwards.

 

Sounds like a very successful return!!

 

1 hour ago, Harriet said:

Orange is fine

 

? I'm being thick and I don't know what this means. Also okay if I'm not supposed to know.

5 minutes ago, Harriet said:

I keep posting when the challenge is over, at least until I have a new challenge idea.

 

Same. I might start posting tomorrow with draft ideas for the next challenge. Kinda workshopping things for week zero.

銀公雞的光輝長廊

The glorious corridor of the silver rooster

 

貪得無厭的班卓人無情的教導

The ruthless teachings of the greedy banjo

 

Goal: Daily banjo PT and practice specifically on Thursdays and Saturdays. ✅

Reward: New songbook and new picks 🟨

Outcome: Best written goal. Behavior was SMART, reward was commensurate for what I knew at the time. Challenge was successful, despite me concluding in future skipping Saturdays. The songbook reward is top notch, banjo teacher approved, and I'll order shortly. The picks reward, I had envisioned letting me upgrade my picks to the next tier of quality, but after soliciting input, I'm def not doing that. I will buy a fun colored thumb pick for $1-$5, but while cobalt or titanium finger picks are affordable (<=$100), they require me to change my playstyle significantly, and I'm too new to the banjo for hard commitment with a specialized style. Plus there's a running joke in banjo circles about beginners who spend money instead of hard work; I'm too proud for that shit.

Carry over work: None.

 

沉睡惡魔的隱密法庭和他的許多仁慈

The secret court of the sleeping devil and his many mercies

 

Goal: 7 hours of sleep per night ✅

Reward: Punjabi takeout   ❌

Outcome: This goal was both the most successful and the worst written. The reward was unmotivating, the win condition was outside my control, and the desired outcome wasn't even mentioned in the initial goal write-up. Meanwhile, my M-F sleep recorded 7+ hours every night and I'm fully accustomed to the CPAP mask. Lets just be happy it went well 🙃

Carry over work: None.

 

支撐世界的烏龜必須自己更換無價的外殼

The turtle that supports the world must replace its priceless shell itself

 

Goal: clean the garage, my craft area, and store Christmas away.  ✅

Reward: Sushi and $50 extra on my craft supplies order. 🟨

Outcome: Christmas was done handily, the craft area a little later in the month than I wanted, but it's organized now. Garage has three boxes lingering and I'm going to give this project a pass with the proviso I knock the three boxes out by Friday. The reward was fairly motivating but was actually weak in that there was no reality in which I wasn't going to spend any money budgeted for craft supplies, regardless of the challenge outcome. I'll keep in mind for future rewards that I have to be willing/capable of enforcing a fail condition.

Carry over work: 3 boxes to be sorted for storage/donation/trash. 

 

短暫的鑿子賦予了看不見的奇蹟以形式

The ephemeral chisel gives form to the invisible miracle

 

 Goal: Print and paint 5 statuettes ✅

Reward: Lion's tail petals ✅

Outcome: 5/5 printed, 3/5 painted due to cold weather and my unheated painting setup. Giving myself a pass for factors outside my control, with extra credit for solving a print error that was haunting me. Apparently the warmer weather that brought my basement printing lab up to mid 50's F, it meant my tiny heater that I use to keep my print enclosure within the 68-86 F optimal printing temps, it didn't have a shut off and was rocketing the temps to 110+ F. Printing at 10 degrees below optimal range is much better than printing at 30-40 degrees higher. lol

The challenge more than earned the reward of reordering dried lion's petals! For any tea enjoyers that also rock an anxiety or depression diagnosis, get some lion's tail. Lion's tail and blue lotus makes a very bitter cup of tea that handily controls breakthrough symptoms when you're having a bad day. Run it by your psych doc to be extra sure before you try it but it's legal, safe, and helpful.

Carry over work: Warmer weather on 3/19, so I can paint our Saxon lord figures then. I have three separate versions, and I'll post them side-by-side so we can figure out what version we prefer, or what elements from each version we prefer.

 

光榮但笨重的泰坦研究卑微但不知疲倦的螞蟻

Glorious but hulking Titans study humble but tireless ants

 

Goal: 3x8 sets at 65% 4x a week. Whining before and after is not mandatory but will be included. In copious amounts. ✅

Reward: replace the old crumbling gym bag!! ❌

Outcome: goal was SMART, easily reportable, but the reward was a non-factor for motivation. Moving to a stringer backpack for an in-between gym bag while I poke around the charity shops for a replacement. Even after earning the reward, I can't be assed to find "the perfect gym bag" nor pay $50-$100 for some shit that's identical to a $10 bag at charity shop. The stringer backpack meanwhile can't fit my belt and that's actually a good thing for a bit, since no belt means I'm doing higher volume instead of only a lazy 3x1 95%.

Carry over work: None.

23 minutes ago, Sea-to-sky said:

Since the continuation of the “reduce the tbr challenge” will be ongoing and i plan to try and learn mando chords and more tune, im sure plenty of info dumping will occur. Want to try new recipes too, which are fun to link. Plus the usual bujo page experimentations. 
 

In the spirit of book recommendations, i am halfway through My fake rake by eva leigh, which i am enjoying immensely and highly recommend. 

Yesss! I mean tho, use your next challenge as a thinly veiled excuse to microblog and then tack on whatever tf you feel like for goals?

Just now, Sea-to-sky said:

Thanks dude.
I am just going to take it slow. Might end up starting next challenge late or just pick something that uses minimal energy. All good options, so i’ll See how it goes

 

Selfish ask: please pick something you love and info-dump about it every day? Crochet patterns, mando techniques, romance novel cover-art models, local jellies, trashy tv; anything. Vicarious info dumping is my favorite sport and it makes me return to the challenges every day.

On 3/16/2024 at 2:59 AM, Sea-to-sky said:

Wow, that sound. He always gets me. Music you can really feel right down to your toes and in your heart.

ironic i sent you a vid of his the other day.

 

My friend, someday you will meet Liam and you two will compare notes of the many many ways I steal shit from the people I care about, and then repost it as though my indefatigable quest for perfect music and memes has produced this shit from the aether. "This shit" being, in this case, getting turned on to Martin Simpson and pretending I found him without your involvement. 😝 

 

Speaking of Martin's, have you grokked Martin Sexton?  Not only is he a top shelf blues/folk singer, he's cute as a button. Sorta in that uncomfortably attractive zone where you're not sure if you want to collect him as a bobblehead or as a paramour.  At the end of the vid where he goes "that's a muthafuckin cut!" and then chortles like a hobbit after second breakfast?? Sploosh.

 

 

 

On 3/16/2024 at 11:25 AM, Harriet said:

 

Oh nice, I missed this somehow but it's fantastic! We're on an upward road for sure, I can see it in the entrails.

 

Thanks my friend, your support made it so fun this month!

 

On 3/15/2024 at 8:08 PM, ViperN7 said:

Finally a line I can read in its entirety!

(I arrived at something a good deal more chaotic and fanciful than "Life Updates" though lol)

 

You're impressive!! I washed the Chinese phrases through google translate a few times, then rendered them in traditional characters. Just trying to hide dumb jokes behind a few layers😄

 

On 3/15/2024 at 8:08 PM, ViperN7 said:

But also: you play cribbage????? (It's so hard to find anyone who's even heard of it.) 

 

Its the best game to play at the beach or a coffee shop!! The physical scoreboard, the easy ability to pause play between hands while you fetch a new drink or visit with an acquaintance who stops by? Vibes are immaculate. 

 

On 3/16/2024 at 2:59 AM, Sea-to-sky said:

I saw him live once, in a tiny cornish theatre that was nearly completely empty. Would love to see him again, it was just the most amazing gig. He is, if anything, somehow even better live. The recordings just dont do the sound justice.

 

That's deeply satisfying to hear!

 

50 minutes ago, Sea-to-sky said:

Good to know 👍. Recovery week very much getting used at the moment. 

 

And if the challenge guidelines don't suit your needs, you got a posse of pardners who will back you up in making any changes to the rules you want